In the thirty-seventh year of Zongming, in the autumn, heaven and earth were killed.

The leaves of the trees had turned yellow, and the leaves that had been scorched by the summer sun finally couldn't hold on, and they staggered down in the breeze, spreading a thick blanket on the ground.

Chen Guang stood in front of a house, staring at the large wheat field in front of him.

The wheat fields are vast, stretching endlessly at a glance, like a golden ocean.

The plump ears of wheat are hung with the blood and sweat of a hard year, and this year there should be a better harvest.

But there are so many wheat fields, how can anyone be starved to death all the time?

Occasionally, this tall and sturdy man can't help but think about it.

Footsteps came briskly from afar.

After a while, Wu Sheng came to him and said with some excitement: "Big brother, more than a hundred people have come to join us recently, and our people have now reached a full thousand!" ”

Thousands of people!

This is something they never expected before.

Probably because before the news of the four-nation alliance spread throughout the territory of Otsuki, they had already made a small deal and achieved certain results.

So when the news of the Four-Nation Coalition spread, and there were rebels in various places, many people who saw the opportunity, or were simply forced to live, began their own plans.

Even if he didn't want to do anything at that time, people and horses kept gathering and working.

Actually, those people are just for a bite to eat.

However, now that it is autumn harvest time, how can anyone still come to help?

No matter how hard those old men do, they can't even give a full meal at this time, right?

Chen Guang's eyes flashed with doubt, and he asked, "It's the time of the autumn harvest, how can anyone still rush to defect?" ”

"Hey, it's not that guilty of the silver trouble! Hundreds of officials handed over money to the emperor, but where did the money come from? Shall not take it from the hands of the rich and rich? The wealthy businessmen and wealthy families suddenly lost a lot of money, and this account didn't fall on the grass people? Although it is the autumn harvest, this year's various taxes are simply unheard of, and it is almost a desperate situation! Wu Sheng kept talking.

The more calamities there are, the more difficult it is for the people.

Not to mention the war!

The taxes that can barely be maintained in peacetime will not only not be reduced by half a cent, but will be increased layer by layer!

It's like a vicious circle, because it's not good, you have to pay more food, and because you have to pay more food, it's even more bad.

Rise and fall are the suffering of the people.

The vast majority of the people don't know too much reason, and they don't have to run to them to see their hungry faces and yellow muscles, and when they even have to move a finger, they have already divided their lives if they say anything about "sharing worries for the country".

The occasional hunger is nothing to them.

It is not unbearable to be hungry for a few meals in three days.

There is probably no more hard-working group of people in the whole world than them.

But now that I can't even smash the bowl, I can't bear it.

The most patient of these people also had to lift farm tools and cut down bamboo as weapons to try to protect what little rice they had.

"Sin Silver"

Chen Guang's expression kept changing.

Of course, he had heard the news of the guilty silver.

In fact, according to the report of the spies dispatched, some time ago, a certain county order posted a list and praised this measure.

He also listed a few wealthy businessmen who donated large sums of silver, and bitterly Chen Shengdou Xiaomin did not understand the truth of "serving the country and the people".

Of course, Uncle Ben knows that you are doing a bad job, but you also have to understand the truth of worrying about the country!

Rich businessmen can donate so much food, and charging you a little extra tax is like asking for your life, is this appropriate?! Do you have a big moon in your heart? Is there an emperor?

Increasing taxes is for the sake of the big moon and for you to live a stable life!

Since it doesn't make sense to you, then don't blame us for being ruthless.

I heard that on the day the list was posted, the county order also made people arrest a few typical examples, and tortured them severely in front of the list, and finally left with their heads held high.

It's just that that night, more than 100 people rushed to the county office and ended the life of the county magistrate who was looking forward to being rewarded with the most rudimentary farm tools.

Now that group of people are still in his team, how could Chen Guang not know?

As a member of the team who has been crawling at the bottom, he knows very well that the so-called bullshit discussion silver is just another protection fee.

"Brother Chen."

Wu Sheng grabbed his arm, his eyes burst out with dazzling brilliance, and he said in an extremely excited tone: "What are you waiting for? There are thousands of us! ”

He pointed to the large area of farmland in front of him with one hand, and said excitedly: "Look, so much grain is about to be ripe." Instead of handing it over to the damned officials, why don't we take it ourselves? It didn't matter if you couldn't beat it before, but now? Time is not waiting for me! ”

At this time, the timing of the uprising was also important.

Now every day, even if I don't do anything, there are more than a thousand mouths waiting to be fed.

Those people came here to be able to eat two bites of food, and if they couldn't eat enough here, what were they going to do?

The autumn harvest is the best time to do it, and if you miss it, it's hard to get things done.

There wasn't much time left for them to hesitate.

Of course, Chen Guang also understood these things, his brows were tightly wrinkled together, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but his gaze sometimes became fierce, and sometimes turned unwilling.

"Have you ever thought that when there are more people, it will be different from before?" Chen Guang said suddenly.

"What do you mean by big brother?"

Wu Sheng tilted his head sideways, a little unintelligible.

"I didn't have a heel before, but I could go wherever I wanted. There are too many people, and you can't run around in the future. There will be people dragging their families with them, so it will be even more impossible to run around, there must be a place for people to live in, if this is not done, everyone will die. ”

Chen Guang lowered his head and looked at the dirt on his toes.

Obviously, it was just because he couldn't catch up with the construction period of Wanshou Immortal Palace, so he had to make this decision as a last resort, but now how did he come to such a situation?

It was as if they had done nothing at all, but they were already at a fork in the road.

Take a step forward and give up your whole body in exchange for glory and wealth.

Take a step back, take some people away, and just have something to eat.

The former is risky and the latter. It's not even safe!

This dog's day, the cannibalistic world!

"Big brother is worried about this!"

Wu Sheng laughed, and he said: "When a few of us couldn't catch up with the construction deadline, we were not afraid of anything, with two knives and a dozen people, we dared to stand on the official road to stop people." Why is it that now that there are thousands of people, it makes the eldest brother afraid? ”

"It's not that I'm afraid, it's that I'm responsible."

Chen Guang shook his head, "When people are not full, they can work hard for a bite of food." But when you are full, you will think more. Yangzhou, have you heard the news of Huang Tianjun? Leader Huang Chao, Martial Arts Grandmaster! It is said that he dug up a stone figure on the bank of the Jishui River, and the stone man was engraved with words! ”

"The prophecy?"

Wu Sheng naturally knew the news, and said nonchalantly: "Brother, if you believe this, I will make the fox bark tonight!" ”

Chen Guang glared at him, "You know that's not what I said. If you think about it, people are in the land of Yangzhou, and such a rich place has begun. There is also Yuzhou, not to mention the White Lotus Sect Master, no one can compare to him in terms of experience. How can we fight these mud legs? ”

This is a very real problem.

It's just that if you cut a bamboo and write two sentences, others will follow you.

Now there are still people who keep running over, because there are no powerful characters on their side.

The advantages they had accumulated in the past were enough to attract people to come and join them.

But once the anti-flag is raised, the question that needs to be considered is no longer whether you can have enough to eat, and there is a big gap between them.

Big enough to make people despair.

No matter how much fame, strength, or advantage they have achieved, they are nothing if they now gather thousands of people.

"What do they do? Yangzhou is too far away, and there are four-nation coalition forces over there, and if Huang Tianjun wants to occupy Yangzhou, he will definitely have to fight. Although the White Lotus Sect Master is very powerful, the land of Yuzhou is not too far from the imperial capital, how can the new emperor let him make trouble? Gotta clean him up!

We can't go up to the village or go to the store, and no one will look at us for a while. If you don't take advantage of this opportunity to get started, where will there be such a good opportunity! Wu Sheng said affirmatively.

Chen Guangzheng was about to say something.

Suddenly, there was a sound in the distance, and there was a hoarse cry.

So he hurried over, and saw a servant raising his whip and beating a woman continuously.

The woman was thin and shriveled, with a child in her arms.

At this time, he grasped a handful of ears of wheat in his hand, endured the whipping, kneaded it with his rough and shriveled palm, kneaded the wheat, and handed it to the mouth of the child in his arms.

"Eat, eat."

She cried bitterly, blood oozing from her clothes, shaking all over her body, still trying to hold the child in her arms.

"Dare to steal the master's things, I don't think you want to live anymore!"

The official sneered, stepped forward and kicked the woman to the ground.

The little wheat that had just been kneaded out was scattered all over the ground.

Actually, there are not many.

The servant stepped forward and grabbed the boy by the head.

It could have been a little girl, just yellow and stunned, skinny and silly.

Even if my mother fell on the side of the road, she didn't know how to take a look, but just stared at the wheat on the ground, and said stupidly: "Eat. Dropped. ”

"Dropped?"

The official sneered, "I think your head is going to fall off!" Dare to steal from the master, I don't know how to write dead words! ”

She was frightened by the voice of the servant and whispered, "Hungry"

"Hungry, huh?!"

The official squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil, and stuffed it into her mouth, "Come, eat!" Finish it for me! After eating, grandpa will go around you! ”

"Let go!"

The woman who had been kicked to the ground got up and pounced on him like a madman, gnawing at his arm like a wild beast without reason.

"Crazy woman!"

The official screamed in pain, was furious, and knocked his weak body out with a slap, and pulled out his knife again, "I don't know if I live or die. Stole the master's things, and dare to resist? ”

The woman cried out, "It was planted by my son. My man planted it."

"Ha, you're still a fart? The land here is all old! The old man is kind-hearted, and he is not satisfied with rewarding you with a mouthful of food, is it really your own object?! ”

He raised his sword, his face hideous and angry, as if he had been greatly offended.

The long knife slashes down!

However, only in mid-air, he was forced to stop there.

A palm grabbed his arm, preventing him from entering.

A rather stout man stood in front of him.

"You"

He wanted to say something.

Immediately afterwards, he heard the man who stopped him say: "Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind of thing?!" ”

The sword light turned upwards into a red ray!

When blood blooms out and falls on people's eyes, it is red.

(End of chapter)